"If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it." - Ken Livingstone

I do believe in the power of voting but I think in this country it is highly over-rated. I believe each and every dollar you spend is a vote for what kind of world you want to live in. Added up, I believe your total lifetime spending has more of an impact on the world than all the people you did or didn't vote for. To me, it is clearly propaganda to suggest that we can actually solve our serious problems through a corporate-sponsored media event lasting almost two out of every four years. Even if we elect someone with good intentions we don't know how she/he would hold up in D.C. under various new pressures to sell out in small ways here and there (to accomplish this or that goal, of course).